sex talk
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5.4
- noun
- /sɛks tɔk/
- Informal
:
charla sobre sexo
- Twenty-five percent are reluctant to discuss weight problems, while 10 percent avoid the sex talk, and only 5 percent struggle with addressing drugs and alcohol.
- frank sex talk
- safe sex talk
Well, looks like I need to have the sex talk with America's elderly.
- Well, looks like I need to have the sex talk with America's elderly.
- And then the other thing that I went to was one of Emma Louise Boynton's sex talks.
- Yeah, as a psychologist, I got to ask, as a father, did you have the sex talk with your son?
- OK, well, the sex talk should be happening by the time they're five and you go through the pros and cons of gosh, sex really feels good.
Examples
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Without the tie, we're having the sex talk.
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I never got the sex talk from my parents.
Blog text (15) -
The best way to approach sex talk with young kids is to stay basic in descriptions.
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We both agreed you would be the one that had the dreaded sex talk with her.
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Many parents find it difficult to have the sex talk with their children as they may feel awkward discussing sexual matters.
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After a long discussion, he finally decided it was time to have the sex talk with his teenager about relationships and consent.
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She believed that having an open sex talk could help her daughter make informed decisions about her body.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a conversation about sexual matters' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'sex' (sexual matters) with 'talk' (a spoken exchange), so a learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. This noun+noun/compound pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows straightforward compositional logic, making it accessible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Sex talk simply joins sex and talk to name that one important, often awkward conversation where parents or teachers explain sexual things to children or teens. So, it means 'a conversation about sexual matters', usually to teach or give guidance.